The day after Sorenti and his gang of criminals kidnap millionaire banker Mr. Harrington, Sorenti, posing as a sympathetic friend of the family, visits the banker's daughter Helen in the hope of winning the heiress and her money. When Helen rejects his proposal in favor of her faithful sweetheart, Darwin Russell, Sorenti abducts the young man, but because the police now suspect Darwin of kidnapping Harrington, the gangsters release him and he is promptly arrested. Convinced of her lover's innocence, Helen hires Detective Delaney, who soon persuades the police to release Darwin. Having arranged his own abduction by the Sorenti gang, Delaney helps Harrington escape and then leads the police to the gang's ...
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The day after Sorenti and his gang of criminals kidnap millionaire banker Mr. Harrington, Sorenti, posing as a sympathetic friend of the family, visits the banker's daughter Helen in the hope of winning the heiress and her money. When Helen rejects his proposal in favor of her faithful sweetheart, Darwin Russell, Sorenti abducts the young man, but because the police now suspect Darwin of kidnapping Harrington, the gangsters release him and he is promptly arrested. Convinced of her lover's innocence, Helen hires Detective Delaney, who soon persuades the police to release Darwin. Having arranged his own abduction by the Sorenti gang, Delaney helps Harrington escape and then leads the police to the gang's headquarters.
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Seventy-year-old newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies in his palatial Florida home, Xanadu, after uttering the single word “Rosebud.” While watching a newsreel summarizing the years during which Kane ... >>

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